VDB
CVE-2019-12761
CVE-2019-12761
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.
EPSS 2.11% · 81.0th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
2.11%
81.0th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | pyxdg | 0.25-4, 0 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | pyxdg | 0.25-4ubuntu1, 0, 0.25-4 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | pyxdg | 0.25-4, 0.25-3, 0 |
Timeline
- Jun 6, 2019 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 25, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 29, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 8, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 10, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12761 third-party-advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562 third-party-advisory
- https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916feba third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4700-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12761 third-party-advisory